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Posts & comments

A space's posts live in its posts app, organized into topics. Depending on what a space has turned on, posting can mean a few shapes: long-form posts, short notes, or image galleries.

Writing and editing​

  • Your posts are yours. You can edit or delete anything you wrote, any time. Deleted posts leave a small marker; the content itself is gone.
  • Drafts stay in your browser. The long-form composer keeps an unfinished draft on the device you were writing on — it won't follow you to another device until you post it.
  • Attachments — images, files, and links (with previews) can ride along on a post.
  • The fold. A long-form post can place a fold. Readers who don't have access to the post see only what's above it, with an invitation to continue in the space; everything below the fold never leaves the space.

Admins can additionally pin posts, restrict who can post in a topic (an announcements-only feed, say — see Roles & permissions), and send a post out as an announcement or an email broadcast. Either one reaches the people who can read the post, and broadcasts are limited — at most one per space every six hours, plus a weekly ceiling on recipients. See Subscribers & broadcasts for the full picture.

Sharing a post outside the space​

An admin can let people read a post without adding them to the space:

  • Make it public. A single post — or a whole topic at once — can be marked public, giving each post its own shareable page readable from the space's public profile. Comments and members stay inside either way, and if a post has a fold, visitors see only the part above it.
  • Secret links. For a post you haven't made public, an admin can hand out a private share link. Whoever holds it can read the post's opening — the part above any fold — without the post becoming public and without joining the space. The link can be rotated at any time, which instantly kills the old one, or switched off entirely.

See Who can see what for the full picture.

Comments​

Posts carry threaded comments — replies go one level deep. Comments support mentions and attachments, and you can edit or delete your own. Files on the space's desktop can be commented on too; those comment threads are simpler — a flat list, no replies.

Upvotes and bookmarks​

Two ways to react, with an important difference:

  • Upvotes are public. Anyone who can see a post can open the list of who upvoted it, by name. An upvote is a visible signal, not a private one.
  • Bookmarks are private. Bookmarking a post, comment, or message saves it to your own list. Nobody — not the author, not admins — can see what you've bookmarked.

Finding things​

Search covers the spaces you're in — posts, comments, chat messages, files' comments, and members — and never anything from a space you're not in. You can search one space or all of yours at once, filter by author or topic, and browse everything you've bookmarked.